2~ + HISTORY OF THE COUNTY O? WESTCHESTER. 



cell (hereof, To have and to hold the said Parcel! and neck of land and premises 

 Paying such dutyes and acknowledgements as now are, or, hereafter shall bee 

 unto the said William Willett his heirs and assignee unto the proper use and 

 behaffi' of the said William Willett his heirs and assignee for ever Rendering and 

 constituted and estahlisht by the laws of this government, under the obedience 

 of uis Royalle Highnesse, his heires and successors. Given nnder my hand and 

 seale at Fort James in New Yorke on the Island of Manhattans the 15th day of 

 April in the 19 yeare of his Majesties' Reigne annoqD'ni 1667. 



RICHARD NICOLLS. 



Recorded by order of the Goveno r the day and yeare above written, 

 endorsed a patent granted unto Mr. William Willett for Cornell's Xeck.« 



Mathias Nicolls, Sec'\ 



In 1709 Colonel Thomas Willett, of Flushing, Long Island, son of 

 the Hon. Thomas Willett of New York, conveyed to his eldest son, 

 William Willett, " all that certaine parcell of land contained within a 

 neck, commonly called and known by the name of ComelFs Neck, 

 bounded on the west by a certain rivulet that runs to the " black rock," 

 and so into Bronx's River. 6 In 1731 William Willett, by will, &c, con- 

 veyed the same to his heirs, &c. In 1745 Isaac Willett devised the 

 whole neck to his nephew, Isaac Willett and Lewis Graham. c On the 

 1st of June, 1784. the two divisers made an equal partition of the same. 

 Upon the 15th of October, 1793, Egbert Benson and Thomas Hunt 

 executors of Lewis Graham conveyed the west half of Cornell's Neck 

 to Dominick Lynch. On the 16th of April, 1830, the executors of 

 Dominick Lynch conveyed the west half of the neck to the Ludlow 

 familv. The share of Isaac Willett to the east half of Cornell's Neck 

 was conveyed to Isaac Clason, Cire, 1793.^ Cornell's Neck is now 

 owned by the families of Ludlow, and Beach, the Roman Catholic 

 rs and others. 



The Willets descend from the Rev. Thomas Willett, Subalmoner to 

 King Edward VI., Rector of Barley, Herts and Prebend of Ely Cathe- 

 dral who died in 1597. His son, the Rev. Andrew Willett was born at 

 Ely in 1562, was Proctor of Cambridge Uuniversity in 1558, Prebend of 

 Ely Cathedial in 1597, Rector of Childerby, Grantesden, and Chaplain 

 to Prince Henry. He died in 162 1, leaving by his wife, Jane, eleven 

 sons and seven daughters. His youngest son was the Hon. Thomas 

 Willett, first Mayor of New York, who was born in 161 1, went to Ley- 

 den, thence came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1630, where he succeeded 



o Copied from the original, Doc. in possession of Robert IT. Ludlow, Esq. 

 b Omuty Rec. Lib. D. 3a, From this family it obtained the name of Willett's Point. 

 c Thi» individual married Isabella Mo: : r 1 1 Lewis Morris of Moxrisania. 



d From 3ISS. in possesion of R» U. Ludlow, Esq. 



